{"id":10030,"date":"2025-04-29T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2025-05-16T02:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T02:25:01","slug":"our-streets-our-stories-post-custodial-collecting-at-the-center-for-brooklyn-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2025\/our-streets-our-stories-post-custodial-collecting-at-the-center-for-brooklyn-history","title":{"rendered":"Our Streets, Our Stories: Post-Custodial Collecting at the Center for Brooklyn History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/OSOS_0610_1920x.png\" alt=\"Children sitting on a bench outside Marcy Houses. Another group of children are playing hide and seek in the background.\">\n<figcaption>[Elaine Clark, Robert Clark and Roseanne Clark outside Marcy Houses], 1952, Photographic print, OSOS_0610; Our Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. Donated for capture by Roseanne Clark White at Boys and Girls High School.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/digitalcollections\/items?search=acn%3A%28Our+Streets%2C+Our+Stories%29\">&#8220;Our Streets, Our Stories,&#8221;<\/a> a project of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/center-for-brooklyn-history\">Brooklyn Public Library&#8217;s Center for Brooklyn History<\/a>, is a post-custodial collection of more than 1000 digitized personal photographs, records, and artifacts reflecting the lives of Brooklyn residents. The collection was established in 2014 through the <a href=\"https:\/\/mnylc.github.io\/cit-toolkit\/about\/\">Culture in Transit<\/a> program, a partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.org\/\">Metropolitan New York Library Council<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queenslibrary.org\/programs-activities\/arts-culture\/queens-memory-project\">Queens Library<\/a> funded by a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/\">Knight Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1N0KijVP0_EtKMVUCmvlBLrcIi4_UhN_RQTt7bxL6xhg\/edit?usp=sharing\">This presentation<\/a> will touch on the experience of cataloging items from Our Streets Our, Stories by the Center For Brooklyn History&#8217;s Pratt Fellow. Now, more than ten years after the initial digitization of these items, Our Streets, Our Stories stands as a case study on the importance of collecting robust metadata at the time of donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation will touch on the experience of cataloging items from Our Streets Our, Stories by the Center For Brooklyn History\u2019s Pratt Fellow. The Collection is a valuable case study on the importance of collecting robust metadata at the time of collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268],"tags":[63,19,1355,134],"coauthors":[1353],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1268","tag-archives","tag-cultural-heritage","tag-post-custodial-archives","tag-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}